Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.

Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of tribal, family, and personal history make this book unforgettable. Doubters and Dreamers is a master-piece.